On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 17:33, Álvaro G. Vicario <alv...@demogracia.com> wrote: > 2009/10/3 Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com>: >> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 14:56, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>> Is there a continuing need to cover PHP4 in the installation documentation? >>> Ideally, nobody is installing PHP4. Should we really be encouraging them to >>> do so? >>> >>> My inclination is to remove references to PHP4 in the install docs, but I >>> wanted to see if there was wider consensus on this. >> >> Like with the PHP4 OO docs, they should either be removed or at most >> refactored into an appendix. >> >> In fact, I would love to see any references to PHP4 go bye bye. Even >> the functions versioninfo, there is no reason to mention PHP4 anymore. > > I understand that you move older versions to the appendix section, but > I don't think it's necessary or even useful to remove all traces that > they ever existed. Knowing when a function became available is > extremely useful. Maintaining code in a legacy server is hard enough > without resorting to trial and error.
Which is the reason why we still have the docs available. We do have a page for PHP3 [1], but this is a bit harder to do with PHP4... The install docs and such things can easily be refactored into a php3 style page, but the extension and function information is bit harder to work on.. PHP officially dropped support for PHP4 long long time ago, I don't think its appropriate that we still have these docs as first-class-citizens anymore. -Hannes [1] http://www.php.net/manual/php3.php
